"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

Music, Example, Language, Meaning

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"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

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"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

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"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."

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"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

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"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

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"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

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"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

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"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."

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"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

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"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."

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